[R] How to adjust the stack size of R

[Uwe Ligges]

On 01.04.2012 08:46, Xiaobo Gu wrote:
> 2012/3/31 Uwe Ligges<ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
>
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>> On 30.03.2012 03:16, Xiaobo Gu wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I got a stack overflow error when training a glm model with a very long
>>> formula.
>>>
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>> I just tried with a formula of length 1000. How long was yours?
>> Which version of R? Where is the repdroducible example?
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> We have a glm formula with 76251 terms, the text of the formula is about
> 150K, we are using R 2.14.2
>
> Xiaobo Gu
>


You would need do compile your own copy of R and increase the stack 
size, on the slow machines around here, it takes even hours just to 
parse the formula.

Aynway, I canmnot believe you have a sufficient number of observations 
in the end:

You need at least 76252 obs and that means the design matrix needs > 46 
Gbyte! Hence a sensible calculation is not really possible unless you 
have really big machines around.

Best,
Uwe Ligges